Has anyone ever had their posts mirrored on other blogs without consent, and seemingly fraudulently? What I mean is, I had two extra links to a post of mine in my wordpress.com dashboard, which I’ll repeat in full:
THE HOT JOINTS | Breaking News and Opinion created an interesting post today on Annihilation – and not just Howardâ��s
Here’s a short outlineAnnihilation – and not just Howard’s Posted by Jangari under Election ‘07, Environment, Indigenous, Land, Law, Philosophy, Politics, The Intervention
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kevincmurphy created an interesting post today on Annihilation – and not just Howardâ��s
Here’s a short outline
Annihilation – and not just Howard’s Posted by Jangari under Election ‘07, Environment, Indigenous, Land, Law, Philosophy, Politics, The InterventionFor more information go click here
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The striking similarity – by which I mean ‘complete identicality’ – between the two, and the coincidental timing with which they both appeared makes me think they’re entirely spam.
I’m not very used to spam. Has anyone else had this happen? It doesn’t appear to be malicious at all since it links only back to me, but it freak me out nonetheless.
November 26, 2007 at 1:09 am
Yes, I’ve had this, too. I’ve seen it called “content scraping.” In fact, a friend of mine (who is a lawyer, incidentally) has decided to start fighting the scraping of her own blog’s content. (If you want to see the follow-ups, you can click on her category link for “annoyances.”)
I find myself moderately annoyed by content-scraping, but haven’t gotten too worked up over it. I have been most annoyed by the sites that don’t link back with a credit, though. One time I only discovered that a post had been co-opted because I had linked back to a previous post of mine in the snagged post, and got a pingback. Since then, I’ve started putting in the whole link back to my old posts (and not just the site-relative link), so that I can at least see when my stuff is getting snagged. (And maybe do something about it if I am especially bothered.)
November 26, 2007 at 1:25 am
Yes, I’ve had it too. mostly from spambots, I think.
November 26, 2007 at 3:26 am
It happens to me, too. I end up deleting the pingbacks, but I don’t give it much more thought than that…
November 26, 2007 at 1:38 pm
I’m with Mrs chilli, just delete the pingbacks (flag them as spam) and ignore them that way you may even get the occasional reader finding you but you are not supporting the Spam bots, I seem to be getting every one of my posts so treated lately and when you check out the link you find an identical page to all of the others usually in the same WP template loaded with ads , the real purpose of the site.
Not really a big worry in terms of your intellectual property.
November 26, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Apart from the ads everywhere, they appear to be quite benign. I’m happy to leave them alone I suppose. Although interestingly, doing an ARIN whois database search on the IP addresses (there were actually four simultaneous pings) returns a bunch of street addresses in the US. If I really wanted to, I’d inform them that their respective machines are likely infected with some malicious software.
November 27, 2007 at 6:33 am
They are probabably proxy servers anyway Jangari, so it would be pretty pointless.